Grief Quote by Kim Echlin

“Grief swarmed into her heart like angry bees.”

— Nora Roberts

“Crying had made her want a shoulder on which to rest her head, arms to hold her. She'd wasted too many tears alone in…

— Laurie Alice Eakes

“She was carrying with her, the cold. She was holding on to that icy stone of grief. It had been there all along, sitting…

— Kali Wallace

“she clutched her purse and was completely composed, gracefully accepting people’s sympathies, but when they started to shovel the dirt over old dick’s coffin…

— Alice Hoffman

“Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humming now, that the fright spring-coiled…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“She was wet with my crying. Up around her collar the cotton of her dress was plastered to her skin. I could see her…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“In the beginning, she had hauted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my…

— John Green

“She couldn’t go looking for loss. Of any kind. Because it would awaken those old feelings, the ones she kept tightly coiled inside, the…

— B.A. Shapiro

“Her whole face twisted in agony and one tear fell from the corner of her eye, and I wanted to die right there. I…

— Nicole Williams

“She drew back from his embrace so she could look into his eyes, her own swimming with tears. The uncertainty in her face nearly…

— Sarah Mayberry

“The sobs tearing through her were catharsis. Painful and messy, shredding her heart—and leaving a blissful sort of peace in their wake. But not…

— Kit Rocha